The best way to install apps from outside Apple’s App Store was only made possible because Riley Testut wanted to play Pokémon on his iPhone. Testut was still in college when he started building an ...

Riley Testut’s brilliant AltStore is an App Store alternative (kind of) for iPhone and iPad that allows you to install unauthorized third-party apps. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install it ...

Apple's iPhones are pretty famous for being closed off, with jailbreaking being the only way that most people can imagine sideloading apps. However, there are other ways to sideload apps onto an ...

Unlike other rogue app repositories, AltStore doesn't require a jailbroken phone. There are some caveats, but AltStore is available for download today in preview form ...

As someone who uses Android as their primary mobile OS, I tend to focus on alternative apps/service to Google’s products, but that doesn’t mean I don’t also enjoy the third-party replacements for ...

Recent changes to EU laws require Apple to allow third-party app stores in EU countries. Here's how to use AltStore to sideload iOS apps. The European Union recently passed the Digital Markets Act ...

Apple’s chokehold on the App Store ecosystem for iPhone apps stifles competition, according to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), so it’s now forcing the tech giant to open up to new rivals. As a ...

Japanese users can now download AltStore PAL and sideload apps on their iPhones and iPads. Here’s how. Yesterday, Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to the App Store and iPhone in Japan to ...

All apps that are allowed to be distributed in the App Store must pass Apple's review, and although it was developed with some effort, it was judged that `` It is inappropriate for distribution on the ...

Apple has some strict rules about what can be published on its App Store. iPhone and iPad users can’t install apps like console emulators, Torrent clients, and more. Some workarounds eventually appear ...